to thinking about the natural environment, as well as this environment that we’re living in, because we sure as hell have come back with rocket speed to thinking about what’s happening to the natural environment.
McLuhan: I think you can date that moment from Sputnik, 1957, October 1957, when Sputnik went around the planet and put the planet inside a man-made environment. The planet became an art form. When enclosed—you see it’s like a frame and a picture—when enclosed the planet ceased to be nature, became a human art form for which we are now completely responsible.
Forsdale: Let me tell a story which you don’t remember, Marshall, but when Sputnik went up, when was it?
